[64460] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Knoblauch)
Fri Oct 24 08:26:12 2003
From: "Brian Knoblauch" <bknoblauch@sscorp.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:25:36 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310240006400.12836-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> How many other ISPs intend to follow AOL's practice and use their
> connection support software to fix the defaults on their customer's
> Windows computers?
I've already seen an interesting side effect from a disabled messenger service... With one of those new low-price
Intel hardware modems in a P4 running XP, the system will not shutdown properly after a dial-up session with messenger
disabled... Just an FYI in case confused AOLers start swamping your helpdesks... :-)
